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Since the 1990s I have been very involved with fighting the military "don't ask don't tell" policy for gays in the military, and with First Amendment issues. Best contact is 571-334-6107 (legitimate calls; messages can be left; if not picked up retry; I don't answer when driving) Three other url's: doaskdotell.com, billboushka.com johnwboushka.com Links to my URLs are provided for legitimate content and user navigation purposes only.
My legal name is "John William Boushka" or "John W. Boushka"; my parents gave me the nickname of "Bill" based on my middle name, and this is how I am generally greeted. This is also the name for my book authorship. On the Web, you can find me as both "Bill Boushka" and "John W. Boushka"; this has been the case since the late 1990s. Sometimes I can be located as "John Boushka" without the "W." That's the identity my parents dealt me in 1943!

Monday, June 09, 2014

Once you get paid while not working, you know your remaining days can be counted

Okay, I will “celebrate” my 71st birthday in less
than a month. I look back to see that I
formally “retired” from my mainstream IT career at ING at the end of 2001 (in
conjunction with a layoff), and took pension, severance, and eventually
unemployment, all at the same time, at age 58.
I took Social Security at age 62 (full retirement age was 66 + 2
months), because my pension did have a slight Social Security offset.

I think that when you retire, “you” have to start thinking
about the fact that a day will come when the world does without you. That there is a last day, a “last supper”, a
last movie, etc. is a mathematical certainty, for everyone. Society (whether an employer with a pension,
or Social Security, or even through income from accumulated and possibly
inherited wealth) cannot afford to pay people like me an income indefinitely;
that would not be sustainable. And the
rapidly increasing life spans, and the longer periods of disability, as was the
case for my mother who passed away at 97 in December 2010, will provide a real
challenge for individual freedom, as we have gotten used to it. I was in my sixties when I came back and
looked after her, a previously unprecedented set of circumstances.

There is a bit of a paradox.
Old fashioned “family values” did keep extended family members taking
care of their own elderly, and away from being public charges, even in decades
when perhaps most old age deaths were rather sudden and when most elderly did
not live a long time once they were seriously incapacitated. Now people do live much longer, when many
families are much less cohesive, and when people, partly out of economic
pressures when young adults, have fewer children. All of this has to be faced some day.

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